Lightning

An extremely high form of plasma resulting from the collision of water and air molecules at high speeds during storms.

Of the two forms of lightning, positive lightning (as opposed to negative lightning) is significantly more powerful and long-lasting.

A bolt of lightning will cause air particles to split, creating a sonic boom that can be heard for miles. By measuring the length of time from the sighting of a lightning bolt to the peal of thunder heard, one can determine how far away the lightning has struck, because light reaches the eye much more quickly than a sound wave reaches the ear. (Light is the fastest-moving thing known to man. According to our present grasp of physics, nothing can move faster than the speed of light.)

Lightning comes in all different colors, shapes, and sizes, and strikes everything from trees to churches to Suzanne Fahrenbakher (if you knew her, you would appreciate lightning all the more.)

Lightning is regarded as anything from divine wisdom to a manifestation of coincidence to insane cloud people.

It is very pretty.